North Lake Tahoe firefighters pour water on a house after a runaway truck on the Mt. Rose Highway veered through a runaway truck ramp and into the Incline Village home in 2010.

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No one yet knows what course of events forced Eric Holton to steer his speeding truck onto a gravel escape ramp on the Mount Rose Highway on Monday.

What is clear is that things had already gone terribly wrong. It's the last thing any trucker wants to do.

"You talk to most truck drivers and they tell you they are going to do anything possible to avoid using one of those ramps," said Thor Dyson, district engineer for the Nevada Department of Transportation. ...